Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half courses. The probabilities are that it will no longer be as "sprightly" a study in confusion. As for the main criticism levelled against the theory courses, it is hardly serious enough to demand rebuttal. The abstractions, the artificially simplified models, are merely the skeleton which the flesh of facts and complications is later to cover. In an elementary course in physics, for example, there are unreal hypothesis. Friction may be ignored, or no account may be taken of developments in quanta analysis. A subject has to start somewhere. It is better to start from the assumption that tractors...
...Flesh & Blood...
...commended and congratulated upon the excellent reporting on the career and death of Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada [TIME, Nov. 18]. In comparatively few words you managed to make a real flesh-&-blood personality, a true picture, of Nevada's most famous citizen...
Prince Saionji's life span was staggering. This was a man who was intimate not only with Balfour, Clemenceau, Hindenburg, Wilson, but who wrestled in the flesh with the Emperor Meiji when the latter was a boy, heard Franz Liszt play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president...
...little flesh around the jowls, a figure not quite so lithe and supple as that which reamed the college campus" is the prediction made by the report of the present crop of females twenty years from now. Even so they will not be divorced, statistics assert. Only one percent of those studied have separated...